{"id":820230,"date":"2026-08-20T20:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820230\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T20:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T20:08:08","slug":"walmart-posts-weakest-growth-in-years-a-worrying-sign-of-inflation-weary-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/820230\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart posts weakest growth in years, a worrying sign of inflation-weary Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ODFOXSNH5VFFFLVBPJZE2PPXEA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Signs of inflation weariness are starting to appear at some of the nation\u2019s most important retail giants, raising doubts about how long consumers can keep up strong spending. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YUV7M2ON4ZGITN6LK4QG36U6II\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">On Thursday, Walmart, one of the nation\u2019s largest retailers, reported its weakest sales growth since the pandemic recession in 2020, a dip blamed in part on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/08\/13\/prescription-drug-prices-record-sharpest-drop-more-than-60-years\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/08\/13\/prescription-drug-prices-record-sharpest-drop-more-than-60-years\/\">falling prescription drug prices<\/a>. Analysts expressed concern about Walmart\u2019s growth and what that says about the strength of the U.S. consumer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Signs of inflation weariness are starting to appear at some of the nation\u2019s most important retail giants, raising&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-820230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}